To call Indian Independence history as 'non-violent' is a disgrace and disservice to thousands who were killed in the various massacres leading to 15th August 1947 and even beyond.
"The politics of Gandhi is hollow and noisy. It is the most dishonest politics in the history of Indian polity. Gandhi was the man responsible for eliminating morality from politics and instead introduced commercialism in Indian politics. Politics has been denuded of its virtue", wrote Dr BR Ambedkar
Through her example, Pritilata Waddedar sent out a message to the women of Bengal that they can march shoulder to shoulder with men in liberating the country from the British.
Armed RSS Swayamsevaks had participated in the liberation of Dadra and Nagar Haveli. The Portuguese were made to surrender and DNH was declared independent in August 2, 1954.
On October 21, 1943, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose announced the formation of the 'Arzi Hukumat-e-Azad Hind' or the provincial government of free India in Singapore and had declared war on the British Empire.